Egypt shuts the Rafah crossing – Gaza’s only connection to the outside world – most of the year.

Since September 2015, the Egyptian military cracking down on Gaza’s cross-border tunnel network. It has been carrying out operations in the north of Sinai against what it describes as “gunmen targeting security and military headquarters.”

By virtue of its location on the Mediterranean Sea off the European continent, Egypt is a transit country for irregular migration to a number of European countries, particularly Greece, Italy and France.

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